Great Reformer
an T is a paradox that the Vic: torian age, which is_ still thought of as an age of complacency, is also an age of energetic reformers and_ wrathful critics. Disease and antidote came into being at the sarne time. Of all the reformers, Lord Shaftesbury was the most typical, as he: was perhaps the greatest. Poor Man’s Earl, the excellent BBC biogtaphy of him (from 1YC) Showed how he touched and affected néarly évery Sphere of social reformlegislation for thé looms and the pits Corn Law agitation, clean elections, the abolition of chimnéy-sweeps, practical philanthropy ift the London slums, and the last and hardest fight to clean up hig own estates. The programme indi cated something of his intensely religious and introspective character: his limitations also were thére, but they were thé limitations of a great mati. Most moving weré the quiet voices of thé inquify-witnesses describing how mén atid women ofce worked as beasts of burden, undérground in the mites. The socia| evils that Shaftesbury fought seem, just bécause they are go close. more remote than Roman slavery; atid would seem strange, if they were not also part of the world of Ruskin atid Kingsley, Mayhew and Dickens.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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202Great Reformer New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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